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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Introduction</span></big></big><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="1.1"></a>1.1 About</span><br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">OpenSBC is an ongoing attempt to create
an open-source Session Border Controller that is fully compliant with
the mandates of RFC 3261. &nbsp; OpenSBC can be used as a SIP router,
media anchor for far-end NAT traversal, SIP egress and ingress trunking
among others. &nbsp;OpenSBC functionalities are as follows<br>
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Current Functionalities:<br>
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  <li>SIP Registrar and Proxy</li>
  <li>Back-to-back UA Router</li>
  <li>Traffic Authentication</li>
  <li>Static Routing Rules</li>
  <li>ENUM Routing</li>
  <li>SIP Privacy Enforcement</li>
  <li>Upstream Registrar Support</li>
  <li>Media Server</li>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Future Functionalities<br>
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  <li>Voice XML</li>
  <li>Third Party Call Control (3PCC)</li>
  <li>Dialog Events</li>
  <li>Signaling Compression (SIGCOMP)</li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="1.2"></a>1.2 Copyright</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><small><big>OpenSBC is published under
the MPL, GPL, LGPL tripple license. &nbsp;The default active license is
MPL. &nbsp;However, because of the inherent incompatibility between MPL
and GNU licenses, we decided to explicitly publish OpenSBC using GPL
and LGP as alternative licenses. &nbsp;The full text of the license is
as follows</big><br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><small>&nbsp;* Copyright (c) opensipstack.org.<br>
&nbsp;*<br>
&nbsp;* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License<br>
&nbsp;* Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in<br>
&nbsp;* compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at<br>
&nbsp;* http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/<br>
&nbsp;* <br>
&nbsp;* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"<br>
&nbsp;* basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either expressed or implied. See<br>
&nbsp;* the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations<br>
&nbsp;* under the License.<br>
&nbsp;*<br>
&nbsp;* The Original Code is OpenSIPStack.<br>
&nbsp;*<br>
&nbsp;* The Initial Developer of the Original Code is opensipstack.org.<br>
&nbsp;*<br>
&nbsp;* The author of this code is Joegen E. Baclor<br>
&nbsp;*<br>
&nbsp;* Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of<br>
&nbsp;* either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or<br>
&nbsp;* the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),<br>
&nbsp;* in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead<br>
&nbsp;* of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only<br>
&nbsp;* under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to<br>
&nbsp;* use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your<br>
&nbsp;* decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice<br>
&nbsp;* and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete<br>
&nbsp;* the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under<br>
&nbsp;* the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.<br>
&nbsp;*<br>
&nbsp;* The OpenSIPStack Library includes some GPL/LGPL code libraries that MAY be <br>
&nbsp;* enabled at compile time using the --enable-gpllibs configure switch.&nbsp; If<br>
&nbsp;* enabled, the content of this file is published under the terms of GNU <br>
&nbsp;* General Public License Version 2.&nbsp; For a detailed list of the available<br>
&nbsp;* GPL code, see $(opensipstack)/gnu/README file.</small><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="1.3"></a>1.3 Download</span><br>
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The latest development releases and binaries can be downloaded at the following locations<br>
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  <li><a href="http://www.opensipstack.org" target="_blank">http://www.opensipstack.org</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.opensourcesip.org:8080/jiveforums/downloads.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.opensourcesip.org</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensipstack/" target="_blank">Source Forge</a></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="1.4"></a>1.4 Mailing list and Forums</span><br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensipstack-devel" target="_blank">A Source Forge Mailing List</a> is dedicated to discussing OpenSIPStack Development including OpenSBC&nbsp; <br>
<a href="http://www.opensourcesip.org" target="_blank">Forums</a> are hosted in Open Source SIP website<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">1.5 Sponsors</span><br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><small><big>The chief architect and coordinator of the OpenSBC project is <a href="mailto:joegen@opensipstack.org">Joegen E. Baclor</a>. <br>
<a href="http://www.solegy.com" target="_blank">Solegy Systems</a> sponsored the main functionalities of OpenSBC.<br>
<a href="mailto:rcolobong@solegysystems.com">Ryan Colobong</a> is a Solegy Architect dedicated to work on OpenSBC.</big><br>
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